Wire-glass machine.



No. 766,429. PATENTBD AUG. 2, 1904. J. H. GUNLIFPE & T. E. TAYLOR. WIRE GLASS MACHINE.

API LIOATION FILED 00116, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT FFICE.

JAMES H. OUNLIFFE AND THEODORE E. TAYLOR, OF STREATOR, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-GLASS MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,429, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed October 16, 1903. Serial No. 177,273. No model.)

Be it known that we, J AMES H. (JUNLIEEE and THEODORE E. TAYLOR, citizens of the United States, residing at Streator, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois. have invented new and useful Improvements in ire-Ulass .\[achines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention pertains to machines for making wire-glass, and has for its object to provide a simple and easily-operated machine possessed of the practical advantages hereinafter pointed out.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which--- Figure l is a vertical section taken through the longitudinal center of the wire-glass machineconstituting the preferred embodiment of our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in both views of the drawings, referring to whicl A is the table, and B the compressing-roll, of our machine. These parts are preferably of the ordinary well-known construction--- that is to say, the table is provided with longitudinal racks at its sides and the roll with gears 71, intermeshed with the racks, and also with handles (3, whereby it may be conveniontly rolled by an attendant at either side of the table.

O is what is known in the art as a gun. This gun or slide, in which our invention chiefly resides, is preferably made up of side bars (I, notched at their forward ends, as indicated by c, to snugly receive the perimeter of the compressing-roll; threaded rods f and nuts g, through the medium of which the side bars are connected; an apron l1, pivoted at f in the side bars and arranged to normally rest against lugs j on said bars, and a plurality of fingers I, disposed below the apron and carried by a rock-shaft 7, removably journaled at its ends in the side bars. The rods f and nuts are preferably employed to connect the side bars, since they permit of the distance between said bars being readily increased or diminished when it is desired to use a longer or a shorter apron and a longer or a shorter series of fingers in lieu of the apron and lingers illustrated, according to the width of glass it is desired to make. The said rods 7" and nuts 1 also permit of the lingers [being readily removed and replaced with fingers of a different vertical thickness when desired. This will be appreciated as an important advantage when it is noticed that the vertical thickness of the fingers determines the thickness of the glass below the wire, this because the fingers support the wire, Fig. 1, and when the fingers are thin vertically the wire rests close to the table, while when the fingers are thick vertically the wire rests at a greater distance above the table.

In the practical operation of our novel machine the roll B and gun or slide C are relatively arranged, as shown, and the wire is placed under the roll and the apron it and over the fingers after the manner illustrated in Fig. 1. ith this done, molten glass is poured into the gun between the roll B and apron lb and, the gun is moved in the direction indicated by arrow in Fig. 1 by rotating the roll, when the roll will press the glass in shape and fix the wire therein.

Incident to the described movement of the gun the operator may when necessary throw the apron back toward the roll B, this in order to mix the glass in front, which is liable to get cool, with the hot bulk of glass in the back or adjacent to the roll B and assure all of the glass fed beneath the roll being of the same or sul )stantially the same temperature.

The wire can be placed in the longitudinal central portion of the glass or nearer to either longitudinal edge thereof, as desired.

The gun bears at one end against the roll B, and is thereby caused to move in a straight line when the roll is rotated.

It will further be observed that the construction of our machine is such that the glass will cover the selvage of the wire, and hence it is not necessary to trim the selvage of the wire precedent to placing the same in the machine.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that notwithstanding the simplicity of our novel machine the same is adapted to be operated with suchfacility as to make a large quantity of Wire-glass in a short period.

We have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of our invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding'of the same. We do not desire, however, to be understood as confining ourselves to such specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of our invention as claimed.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a machine for making wire-glass, the combination of a table, a compressing-roll, and a gun or slide movable with the compressing-roll, and comprising side bars, transverse,threaded rods extending loosely through openings in the side bars, nuts on said threaded rods for holding the side bars thereon, an apron arranged between the side bars and removable therefrom, and suitable means for supporting wire above the table, removably arranged between the side bars and below the apron.

2. In a machine for making wire-glass, the

combination of a table, a compressing-roll,

openings in the side bars, nuts on said threaded rods for holding the side bars thereon, an apron pivoted between the side bars so that its upper end is movable toward and from the roll, means for normally supporting the apron, andfingers pivotally mounted between the side bars, in front of the apron, and extending below the apron to a point in rear of the same.

3. In a machine for making wire-glass, the combination of a table, a compressing-roll, and a gun or slide movable with the compressing-roll, and comprising side bars, an apron arranged between the same, and fingers pivotally mounted between the side bars, in front of the apron and extending below the apron to a point in rear of the same.

4:. In a machine for making wire-glass, the combination of a table, a compressing-roll, and a gun or slide movable with the compressing-roll, and comprising side bars, an apron pivoted between the side bars so that its upper end is movable toward and from the roll, means for normally supporting the apron, and fingers pivotally mounted between the side bars, in front of the apron, and extending below the apron to a point in rear of the same.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. CUNLIFFE. THEODORE E. TAYLOR.

WVitn esses:

JOHN J. NORRIS, THos. L. MOCONKAY. 

